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if for the first second of a minuit i give you one penny and for second i give you two and for third i give you four and for fith i five you eight. how much would you have after a minuit?
 Mar 18, 2014
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 Mar 18, 2014
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elka32312:

:!: if for the first second of a minuit i give you one penny and for second i give you two and for third i give you four and for fith i five you eight. how much would you have after a minuit?



If you kept on doubling for all 60 seconds I think you would have
2^60-1 pennies
 Mar 18, 2014
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elka32312:

:!: if for the first second of a minuit i give you one penny and for second i give you two and for third i give you four and for fith i five you eight. how much would you have after a minuit?



This is a Grometric sequence that you will learn a bout later on.
If you would like to have a look at the related maths have a look at this mathsisfun site.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/sequences-sums-geometric.html
 Mar 19, 2014

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